From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 02 01:49:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Flwv7-0005ot-Iu for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:49:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751023AbWFAXss (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:48:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751022AbWFAXss (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:48:48 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:57222 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021AbWFAXsl (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:48:41 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k51NmY2g015443 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:48:34 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k51NmT2G021982; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:48:32 -0700 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.75__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > I've been working on importing the Mozilla CVS into git for the last > few days. I've fixed up parsecvs so that it can parse the entire > repository without errors. Now I'm running into problems because there > are over 300 branches. > > I just run into a problem with git show-branch. Mozilla CVS has a lot > more than 29 refs, is this something that can be expanded? Hmm.. Any reason you care about "show-branch --all" in particular? The algorithm used for show-branch really doesn't scale well, it needs one bit per commit per branch, and I didn't realize anybody could ever really care. Linus